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Harvard Business Review: How global uncertainty could stifle diversity and innovation

Advice for business leaders

December 20, 2024 — 

Assistant Professor at Asper School of Business and Richard Morantz and Sheree Walder Morantz Professorship in Business Ethics, Jae Yun Kim, was part of a group of researchers looking at how widespread global uncertainty with the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, social uprisings, and rising inflation have led individuals to feel less of a sense of personal control. His research finds that this lack of control can drive employees to seek similarity in coworkers, forming homogenous teams that stifle diversity and innovation. 

You can read more on Kim’s insights and the advice to business leaders in the Harvard Business Review.

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